Future Tenses in English Grammar
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Future with Will
I/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/WE/THEY | WILL/WON’T | INFINITIVE
WILL | I/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/WE/THEY | INFINITIVE?
USE – To make opinions or predictions about the future.
To express decisions that you make as you’re speaking.
To make promises, offers or to give warnings.
Future with Going To
I/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/WE/THEY | AM (‘M NOT) /ARE (AREN’T) /IS (ISN’T) | GOING TO | INFINITIVE
AM/ARE/IS | I/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/WE/THEY | GOING TO | INFINITIVE?
USE – To make plans and intentions.
To make predictions when we have evidence.
Future Continuous
I/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/WE/THEY | WILL/WON’T | PRESENT PARTICIPLE
WILL | I/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/WE/THEY | PRESENT PARTICIPLE?
USE - To indicate an action that will be in progress at a point in the future.
To show an action that will continue over a specific period of time in the future.
Future Perfect
I/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/WE/THEY | WILL/WON’T HAVE | PRESENT PARTICIPLE
WILL | I/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/WE/THEY | HAVE | PRESENT PARTICIPLE?
USE – To discuss something that will be completed by a specific time in the future.
- Use the Present Simple to refer to future events in a timetable.
- Use the Present Continuous to discuss definite plans in the short-term future and mention a specific time or place.
Phrases with will or be going to and present simple: (when, before, after, while, until, as soon as) until: be going to